Cedartown advertiser. (Cedartown, Ga.) 1878-1889, July 24, 1879, Image 1

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-i r.f>-rii 1r■ V-i HTKimm CVXBT T SUBS DAT MORNDtO. WM. BEADFOED, Editor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION r ; one year - . $100 - .00 10.00 1 Copy, wire jcal — — - l •* Blx months - - - 11 “ one year TEEMS—Cash In Advance. Address, ADVERTISES PUBLISHING CO., . . CMAWOWN,. GA. ADVERTISER OLD SERIES—YOL. YI. NO. 19. CEDARTOWN, GA., JULY A, 1879. NEW SERIES—YOL. I. NO. 32. ©ftr fjLtMi&r. ADVERTISING RATES. &F4CB. 1 w. 1 m.iS m. 6 m. 1 Inch 2 lnc.ies^ 1 60. * §jw If 00 h K ■IO0O 65 00 3 inches.,. S1 • ^column Hco uinn i—... l co umn 2 0) 400 .6 00 10 i(0 ■KS8» I 50|25 UU 20 00140 00 I J. $12 00 18 00 25 00 40 00 65 00 IOOOO LOCAL NOTICES—Ten cents per line lor one Insertion. For two or more insertions, live cems per Hue each insertion. OBITUARY NOTICES—Charged at hall rates. HARVEST HYMN. Once more the liberal year laughs out O’er richer stores ban gems or gold ; Once more with harvest song and shout Is nature's blood ess triumph told. Our common mother rests and sings Like Ruth amoDg her garnered e heaves j Her lap is full of goodly things, Her brow iB bright with Autumn leaves. O favors old, yet ever new ! O blessings with the sunshine sent! The bounty overruns our due, The fullness shames our discontent. We shut otir eyes, the flowers bloom on ; We murmur, but the corn ears fill ; We choose the shadow, but the sun That casts it shines behind us still. God givf.s us with our rugged soil The power to make it Eden fair, And richer fruit to crown our toil Than Summer-wedded islands bear. Who murmurs at his lot to-day ? Who scorns his native fru t and bloom. Or sighs for dainties far away, Besides the bounteous board of home ! Thank Heaven, instead, that freedom's arm Can change a rocky soil to gold ; That brave and generous lives can warm A clime with Northern ices cold. And by these altars wreathed with flowers. And fields of fru.ts, awake again Thanksgiving for the golden hours, Tne e&rlr and the latter rain. _ “John, Come Here!” a meteor a long black horse shot by, disap pearing in the mist, leaving for John the memory of a charming head, crowned with blonde curling hair, two kind eyes bent upon his own, and a white waving hand extended in salutation. “John,” said Mr. Steele, “did you see the face of that man ? I count ppon your saving Laura Did yon see his thin, cruel lips, and treacherous eyes?” “I only saw Laura, sir,” said John, simply. Later on Mr. Archibald Steele and his plump, pretty wife were alone together in their front parlor. Her dimpled hand lay loving in his, and her shapely head, fresh from the hands of the coiffeur, all unrum- pled by the audacious hands of mortal, peeped in at the door. Laura was pale; her little white hands were clasped together, and her musical voice trembled. “Oh, papa, mamma, come directly! Mr. Stuyvesant ventured too far, and— and—” “Was drowned?” said Mr. Steele, with a queer combination in his voice of pit}' and relief. “No, no; how can you suppose so dread ful a thing; He was rescued, but is very weak and ill. He has asked for me, and may I go? Will you not come with me, mamma? Oil, do, I beg of you. Can’t she, papa?” Her blue eyes filled with tears; her little feet seemed wanting to fly through the cor ridors. “Certainly not,” said Mr. Steele; “let him wait till he is able to come to you or me. Either the man is drowned or he isn’t. Because he was imbecile enough to risk his life is no reason for your being the talk of the hotel. ” Laura raised her eyes proudly. “No danger of that, papa; and besides, to the handsome and heroic founder of the new school for teachingpeople the way to be rescued from drowning. These charming crdatnres spend so much of their time at * the sea-shore, and it was nice to be wise. John was almost hidden in flounces and laces; but when his eyes met Laura’s he plunged. out of those costly billows with his usual ease* and trepidity. There something in Laiira's eyes that had never seen there before; a tempting languor bewitohing shyness; a bewildering splendor that steeped his soul in a mad sweet hope. Laura stopped oqe moment to w hisper to her mamma, and John gasped out to Air. Steele: “If I dared—if I only dared to tell her “I have told her Ay self!” said the mer chant. “That was I a pauper without home or friends?” “I told the story in my own way, John, continued Mr. Steele, “and I flatter myself I told it successfully; do not spoil it if you please. I have managed the past and the present; do you look out for the future, John.” And John did. Laura walk through the parlor that night, envied of all the pretty and sympathetic women and brave and ap preciate men that congregated there. Pretty, plump Mrs. Archibald Steele every one is occupied now with the one wrote the following paragraph in one of her t j, at rescued him. ” letters to her husband the other day: j “And what madman was that?” said “John must come down here at once, 1 poor Mr. Steele, who could not recconcile whether you can spare him or not. Our himself to the present condition of affairs, dear little Laura is greatly taken with a tall, i ‘<j don’t know—-a-etjanger, I believe. I thin young man with a hooked nose and waa go interested in Mr. Stuyvesant I forgot thin lips,called Stuyvesant. It is whispered to ask.” about the hotel that he is a very good) ‘*Bali!” said Mr. Steele, getting upon match, and has the veritable blood of the his feet and walking to the door. “I’ll go old Dutch governor in his veins. I must an d find out all about it. Do you 'Stay say thivt it has a queer way of showing it- here till I return.” self; for the young man is as pale as a j Before he had gone far,. Mr. Steele heard spectre; and dressed in that white duck, ’from the excited guests several different with his sunken eyes and bilious skin, is versions of the affair; but one and all agreed enough to frighten one. 1 have grown to that the rescuer could be nothing less than hate him, while Laura is growing to be a champion swimmer. quite the contrarv I am afraid. All the, 4< . ,, . , 1 . . , - • . it A regular water-dog! said one gentle- evening Beleys up against the wall never man to ! Mr . Steele a " d ^ the me a chant (lancing or opening his mouth save to give had beard thia ^ et but once before in vent to some hateful .sarcastic(criticism llis U(e and tbat P n an occacion of vital in- upon the scenes around him, and yet dean , „ ,, . » , r i . , j ,, A 4l terest to himself, he sought out the hero of little Laura 8 eyes—as, indeed, all the other .. A „ . - ’ , . H . . , , Drettv eves alicmt—iue Deroetuallv beseech 0 0 ’ and found ’ t0 hls unlKmnded pretty eyes about are perpetually bestccn toni8bmentj it was John Waters himself! ways witha long black home 'that "overs : He wa8 c ‘ uite envelo P ed in the flounces and furbeIo ^ of . P. re « ya “ d ^“Pathetic wo- ® men, who insisted upon knowing every ” Uen L.if onn . n .i :e l,„ r..i* .... more ground with its legs while it than any other animal 1 ever saw. r - . . , . i , • . j , half-second if he was sure he felt strong Laura goes out to drive behind it, and va-! , A ... , , ... - ,, ,, . ,...... ..... , ’ , and well, and how in the world could he rushes out of sight with the bonv creature, .^ , Af , . . , T . i., .r • i j . -a ,j i buffet those dreadful waves in that grand, I tremble to think how dreadful it would be K _._ .. ... , - , if our dear little girl would ever be part ° ^ and parcel of this wretched man and his ^ 1 ’ y ^ esiore beast. So I think John had better come j John ’ h . ke an Y . other hero of the hour, down at one. I quite long to see his hand- 6 n j°jed hi| adulation, but looked anxious- some face and hear his honest voice, and I, ^ at S te( u e when he approached, think it is about time that John should tell j “Hum,” growled that worthy merchant, his little story to Lanra, and have things “ a pretty fellow, you, to interfere with settled comfortably. ” i other people’s plans. How do you know Air. Archibald Steele smiled when he put: he wanted to be rescued?” - the letter of his wife in his waist coat- /‘He appeared anxious that way, sir,” pocket, aud, picking up the morning paper, ! Sfrid *John. “He wrapped himself about scaned through his gold-rimmed spectacles ; me like a devil-fish. I thought at onetime the news of the day. Finding nothing ; we d both go down together. There ought therein to refine the exceedingly satisfactory ; fo he a school for teaching people how to condition of his affairs, he put it down, • he saved. It’s the easiest thing in the smiling as only a prosperous, contented, j world ; the water itself is an accessory, if down-town merchant can smile. He was 3 r ° u manage it right.” one of those happy exceptions to the ordi- j “Oh, do tell us how, Mr. Waters, please,” nary rule of morals with whom everything ; chorused the pretty and sympathetic wo- weut well. His whole experience was au 1 men; and as John began his lesson Mr. exclamation-point to that effect. If he ven-1 Steele slipped away. tured a little hazardously in trade, fortune trimmed her sails to favor him. If he set his heart upon anything relating to domes tic felicity, all the elements of art and na ture conspired to bring it about. So when he stepped to the door of his office and bec koned to a yonng man with a strip of com mercial paper in his hand and a pencil be hind his ear, with the general air of brisk ness .and shrewdness about him that be tokened a successful down-town merchant embryo. Mr. Steele smiled the third time with the air of one who was not at all afraid of an}' bilious, blue-blooded obstacle that might be thrown in the path of a do mestic happiness which he firmly agreed had been arranged by an Omnipotent hand. “John,” said Mr. Steele, closing the door of his private office, and looking upon his young clerk benevolently, “I’ve got an or der from Mrs. Steele which I wish you to attend to. ” “Certainly, sir,” said John; “shall I go out and get the articles myself ?” “Why the fact is, John,” said the mer chant, enjoying his joke more and more, “it’s only one article—a rather bulky one. It was bargained for a long time ago. I think you will have to go down with it, John. ” “Down to the sea-shore 1” said John, getting a little hot ana flustered. “Is it a very valuable parcel, sir?” “Well, perhaps your natural modesty may depreciate its worth, John. Mrs. Steele and I think a good deal of it, and Laura, too, I am sure, does. The commo dity is yourself, John. Mrs. Steele wants you to go down and take a little holiday there.” When the name of Laura was mentioned the young man’s face grew more flustered and hot than before. “You are very kind, sir,” he said, and Mrs. Steele is more like an angel than a woman.” “Rather solid and plump for that,” in- teprosed Mr. Steele, but liking the phrase nevertheless. “But it is a simple madness, prusued John, “to dream of further happiness than “Oh, papa,” began Laura, “how is Mr. Stuyvesant ?” “I don’t know—I didn’t ask,” he replied; “I was interested in the fellow that dragged him ashore. He’s an old friend of ours. The way we made his acquaintance w as on such an •ccasion; he saved a lady from drowning.” “Why, papa,” said Laura, “he must be a splendid fellow.” “Magnificent 1” said Mr. Steele. “You see, we had traveled over considerable of the world together, your mother and I, while you were yet a baby; and we found it rather odd one morning to discover that, having crossed the ocean and the Alps, loi tered in the Highlands, traveled thence down the Mississippi Valley, across the American desert to California, and back again by another route, your mother had never been up the East river as far as Mor- risania. It seemed so absurd to have deter mined upon it at once. The morning was wet, but w t c didn’t mind it. Your mother looked prettier in a waterproof and rubbers, with a shovel-hat tied down under her chin, than most women would in a ball dress. She wasn’t a bit afraid of rain or mud. She was a little too reckless; for, getting ashore to see the institution for vagrant boys, her foot slipped off the plank, and she* disap peared.” Mr. Steele stopped a minute; his voice faltered ; the plump little hand of his wife slipped into his own; he clutched it and went on again. “One minute I saw her as neat and trim a little figure as ever graced a waterproof and shovel hat, and the next she was gone.” “Gone !” cried Laura ; “gone w'here?” “Into the water, child—into the hungry green waves that surged up to take her away from the fondest heart in the universe; and if it had been for one of those very vagabond boys who had been lurking there for a chance to escape from the island you would have lost us both, my dear; for I made an agonized plunge after her, though I am ashamed to say 1 cannot swim a stroke, and should only have gone to the bottom like a plummet of lead; but an official I enjoy now'—your affection and that of i standing by caught and held me, and cried your wife—my position here; I don’t dare, I out that Johnny Waters had her, safe as a I can't hope for anything more. ^ Oh, Mr. trivet; and presently that vagabond boy Steele, I can't tell her my story. She would came up with your sweet mother on the turn from me with horror and aversion. j other side of the boat, and the officer cried She is so young, so beautiful. Let me at out, “He’s a regular water-dog, that John- At the Childrens’ Home fair, a nice young man, sauntering around in the vicinity of the floral department, was suddeulv accosted by a fair young girl, who held out a pretty nosegay to him and said: “Allow me to offer you this button hole bouquet sir,” and she presented it with bewitching grace. “A thousand thanks,’’said the young man bowing quite low, and taking the flowers from her pretty fingers. Now who the deirce is this fair Flora, that she shoHld give me a but ton hole bouquet?” was a question the young man asked himself, as he con templated the rosebud, the heliotrope, the geranium leaf, and the jasmine “The rose—that’s for love,” mused the young man as he reluctantly turned to go, “but blessed if I can tell what the heliotrope, the geranium and jasmine stand for, but I’ll find out before I sleep w . if I have to ransack every bobk in the “Why, who would suppose you could since the accident, and crumbling both the 1 public library.” be such a coward?” said Mr. Steele, impe- J coiffeured heads in the most reckless man- j «»F,ffr, Pn PP * n t tuously. “You will go down with me this; ne, . . ... . _ . . very day. I “Papa,- she (hen said, “we must go and ’ lad - v > calhn « gemly after Inm _ All the way to the sea-shore John’s face find John; I want to tell him how much— y° un S mail grew white, red. and were to look of one who had resolved to , I—” spotted by turns, handed her a dollar storm a deadly breach, but who did not j “Yes, dear,” said MA Archibald Steele; j note, and without waiting for change, hope to survive the attempt. * and all the way through the corridor and rushed out on the sidewalk, "and but- Even the ocean, when it confronted | into the parlors of the hotel, with his j ted his head forty or fif ty times them, wore a threatening look. Upon plump and pretty wife on one arm and his ; . th - d - f th h ildi hn the horizon a pile of clouds formed a back- . beautiful daughter on the other, he sailed, j “ „ , ground wan and gloomy, a great black! But John was still surrounded by the ca Hcd upon all the gods that inhabit mist lay in the zenith, and a dense red va- pretty and sympathetic women, who had ! blue empyream to look down upon por almost touched the water. j cruelly deserted the blue-blooded descend-! th« doggondest fool that / ever lived “A very nasty sea,” said Mr. Steele. I ant of the old Dutch governor, lying in his since the world began. John snuffed it in, his eyes dilating, and most graceful and languid of attitudes on a 1 ■ ■ 1 f his head high in the sea-scented air. i neighboring lounge—the descendant, not the I —A suit in the Tennessee Courts ran A tramp on the hard, wet sand, and like Governor—and had flocked, one and aH, | rom 1832 to 1875. least enjoy the present. “And in the mean time some cadaverous, bilious, blue-blooded scoundrel will carry her off from us all. ” Then John's face grew pale and«tero. “If there is the slightest feeling upon her part for—for any one else, then, indeed, Mr. Steele, my case is hopeless." ny Waters!” and these were the very w'ords a guest here used in relation to John a minute or so ago.” “Jolyi!” cried poor bewildered Laura, “our John? Mamma? Was John the boy? And is it John, our John, that saved poor Mr. Stuyvesant?” “The very same darling John, our John; The commercial paper fluttered from his he is always on hand when there is any hand, the pencil fell from his ears, and he trouble or danger.” leaned his head against the desk and trem-1 “Oh, mamma! mamma!” cried Laura, bled. forgetting all the years that had passed Carioag Coins. London appears to be a rich hunting ground for persons of numismatic tastes. A private collector has recent ly added to his stores four curious coins, all discovered within sight of St. Paul’s Cathedral. The first is a small bronze seal, about the size of a shilling, representing the martyrdom of St. Stephen, with the legend f “^ece, video, celos apertos.” It was discovered in the mud of the Thames, near Westminster bridge, and is in excellent condition, the figures, and even the stones thrown at the martyr, being quite sharp and distinct, though it is clear, from a ref erence to A'phonse Chassant’s u Paleo graphic des Chartes.” that the seal is of the J3th or 14th century. It is con jectured that it was the seal of a guild or confraternity of St. Stephen, proba bly meeting in St. Stephen’s Chapel at Westminster. Next in order comes a leaden seal attached to a bull of Pope Boniface IX.; this was found near the Cannon Street Station. The others, which are the rao9t curious of all, are two gold coins of Ali Ibn Josef, third king of the Almoravidse, one of the Mussulman dynasty in Spain, who re signed at Cordova in the 12th century. The inscription in Cuflc characters on each side may be rendered, “Non est Eeus nisi Deus; Muhammed (est) Apostolus Dei; Princeps(Ameer) Mus- elmorum, All Ibn Josef.” On the re verse is “Imam (Chalif) Abdallah, Prince (Ameer) of the Faithful.” Round the edges of each runs the lej^nd. “In the name of God; this ~~ was Struct- .A.lm®nL-- In tb« 525” (dating from the Hegira), crescent on these coins is very cle&i ly marked; and is curious as proving that the crescent had been as sumed as the Mussulman’s symbol long before the capture of Constanti nople by the Turks. These coins were offered as Chinese, and bought as pos sibly Persian; and it was only when cleaned and deciphered that their full value was discovered. A New Wav of Ostricli Hunting. Two Odd Pets. Morris Ash has a pet a sturdy young wildcat. He is very tame, and between him and Mr. Ash’s big dog a warm friendship exists, the two frequently piaying and rolling over one another with their liveliest good nature and enjoyment. The cat, however, is kept out of deference to the prejudice of civ ilization, at the end of a long chain. Harry Fogg, of the People’s Market, is the owner of a still more interesting pet—a black eagle. The bird was caught by a Piute Indian, about two years ago, while yet a mere chicken. Now he is a tremendous iellow with a six foot spread of w ing. He is kept in the back yard, in a stout wooden cage. The bird is a beautiful one, his plumage being as smooth and shiny as new satin. He is fierce toward everybody but his master, for whom he has a great regard feeding from his hand and taking pleas ure in having his feathers stroked and his head scratched. His chief pleasure is to bathe, just like a canary, in a mammoth pan of water, which he sends flying in all directions with his wings. His food is principally raw beef, but the hand of charity now* and again throws him a live cat or chicken, and then the eagle murders and eats with intense satisfaction. He Met Her At The Fair. “Fifteen cents, please,” said the ' When I first went out to South Af rica, my great ambition was to shoot an ostrich; but although they were plentiful enough where we were, they seemed very wild and shy and would not come within shot. At last, early one morning, I came upon half a dozen of them feeding together in an open plain. Unluckily they were too far off for an easy shot from the bushes where I stood, and I knew that the moment I came out into the open they would be off. While I was wondering how to get at them, I spied a single ostrich coming up from the opposite side, aud stopping now' and then to look about him, I thought at first tnat he was their sentinel, and had seen me; but on he came, and soon joined the herd who scarcelv seemed to notice him at all. I was just thinking of laying myself flat on the ground, and'trying to creep up within range, w hen, all at once, the nearest ostrich rolled over like a log. seemingly dead. The next moment down toppled another, and then a third, when the rest appeared to take fright, and scurried away as fast as their legs could cary them. In their flight they passed within easy range of me, but I w r as too much astonished to tire. Turn ing round again, however, I saw that the one which had come up last w'as still in the same place, and I was just thinking of trying to get a shot at him, when all in a moment, the bird vanish ed, and in its stead appeared the short, black, shining body of a bushman ! For a moment I really thought 1 was mad, or else in a dream; and then it struck me that perhaps this might be one of their hunting tricks I had heard so much about; so I stepped forward and gave a halloa. The man turned round, and I recognised a famous na tive hunter of our district, who was said to have been out with Dr. Living stone, and whom we used to call Mat thew as the nearest approach to his na tive name of Maheetu. ‘Halloa, Matthew!” cried I, “have you turned bird for once?” ‘It’s the best way. baas” (master), answered, grinning. “If you want to catch ostriches, you must become an ostrich yourself!” And then he showed me how it was done. He had fitted an ostrich skin on his shoulders, with the head still at tached, and a small rod thrust up the neck to keep it straight; and now hav ing whittened his bare limbs to make them look like the legs of an ostrich,he had gone in among the herd and shot thetn one by one. It was my first experience of the trick, though I saw it often afterwards, and a pretty smart nn<» it was you think so ? Gambling in Different Ages. If Horace is to be trusted, the Ro mans in the time of Augustus under stood the art of loading dice as w ell as the accomplished blackleg of this nine teenth century ciyilizatlon. It is a matter of history tbat Caligula convert ed his house into a gambling hell, in which he fleeced the “young bloods” of the great Roman Empire in much the same manner in which the youth ful nobility of Europe are fleeced to day in the gaming halls of the various continental cities. The Chinese are great card-players. They have.a num ber of different kinds of cards. In the Ching-tsze-tung, a Chinese encyclope dia, it is stated that dotted cards were invented in 1120 A. D. Cards in China are dubbed “paper tickets,” and the kind in general use called Tseen-wan- che-pae—“a thousand times ten thou sand cards.” Wherever gambling was introduced it met immediately with the popular fa vor. In England, in the time oi king John, throwing the dice was one of the principal diversions of the people. Charles II. called out to his favorite, Rochester: “I’ll bet my soul to an or ange on the game.” “If your majesty will bet odds I w’ill take them,” coolly responded the earl. As an instance of the deep hold which the gansbling ma ma has had upon the public mind, there is a story current that in Paris, some time in the year 1825, a man while seat ed at a crowded gambling table deliber ately placed a pistol to his mouth and discharged it, and his fellow-players continued the game without interrup tion as the servants cleared away the scattered brains of the desperate sui cide. A still more remarkable story is told of a man named Shelton, a sort of low prize fighter, who staked first his money on a game of cards, lost it, and then w'agered his clothei, which were also won by his opponent, who pro ceeded to strip his adversary and ap propriate the property. The infatua ted wretch then put up all that re mained to him to dispose of—his life. Again was he unfortunate, and his companion, aided by himself, had just succeeded in hanging him to a lamp- post when the arrival of a watchman, who cut him down, prevented his paying his rash wager in full. In re- trafflc of this gret valley. A good one is told by Joe Corel! in “Recollections of the Stage.” ie was sitting in the cabin of a stearnoat watching a quiet game of effete^ when he observed that another specitor, standing behind one of the playeij was comunicating with the opposite irtner and informing him of the numt>t of trumps held by his opponent braying on the table in front of himthe same number of fin gers. This on tin ued for some time, the player ths “posted” winning all the games. Inally the informer placed one finger oijthe table, and quick as a be^n gambler choppped it off with a bofie-kni/e. “What do you mean?—vouiiave cut off my finger,” cried the wohded man. “Yes, and if I bad had mre trumps you would have lost more liners,” was the cool reply. It has been liscovered by those who have taken be trouble to give the sub ject a carefi^study that there can be nySUrjtaiy.t gambling. At rouge et noir the plans so arranged that a cer tain advantage of per cent must ac crue to the link against the player or all the mony staked on one event. And no amont of calculation or man- agement-canrary these odds against the gamester/ Ivery game indeed admits of cheating, rad in almost all cases it is practiced. )ice are so “secured” tnat a gime of hazard is nothing more nor les» than Ttvbery. Carls are marked shuffled, picked, pricked or skinned, anil “profesionals” frequently use cards with :onclave or convex edge, so that their success depends upon the delicacy oftheir sense of touch and the steadiness >r immobility of their coun tenance. Amusements at sea. .Ul the Cunard and other large steam- bolts posicss a good library for light read ing; besides which there are usually many little solaeements for relieving the tedium of tiicJffrst-4ass passengers. When the weather is fiie there are games of shuffle- board on the deck that draw' a? number of Bud Chinese Eugene G. Blackford, of Fulton Market, New York, who found recently that white- bait may be caught in the neighborhood of New York, has just made another discovery or revival. This is, that the anchovy, that delightful fish which in the form of paste or sauce is so familiar to epicures, may be liad without going to Europe for it. Mr. Blackford’s discovery was the result of in telligent observation. When “whitebait'’ fishing was at its height here a few months ago he noticed that a great many of the fish brought to market were not of the gen uine whitebait type. He carefully declined to put these fish on the market, although, as he says, other dealers are not so conscien tious; and in order that the American w orld might not be deceived, Mr. Blackford for warded to Dr. Bean, of the Smithsonian Institute, and to Professor Fred. Mather, a well know T n pisciculturist, specimens of the alleged whitebait. Then it w r as found that these fish were nearly allied to the anchovies of the Mediterranean Sea, the engraulis cncra8icholus, the American fish being the Vittatus. The American fish have been known for a long time in these waters as “spearing,” and when the question of whitebait came up, were sold largely for those fish at 75 cents per pound. They are fonnd abundantly near Gravesend Bay, L. L, and in the little inlets and bays on the Long Island coast. The whitebait, Mr. Blackford says, are the young of the her ring, while the “spearing” are spearing and nothing else. Within a week there has been no catch of these fish, the large catch of bluefish keeping them away. Formerly when they were caught they were thrown away as worthless, although the encyclope dias recommend them as anchovies. White- bait and spearings may be readily distin guished. The latter are marked by a bright silver stripe, one-sixteenth of an inch wide on the lateral line. The remainder of the body is semi-transparent, and through the skin may be seen the stomach and intestines. Whitebait has no mark along the lateral line and is covered completely with fine silver scales. Whitebait are caught mostly off Bay Ridge, L. L Like so many peculiar things in the Celestial Empire, the system of breeding the Chinese oyster differs widely from that pursued in Europe and America. In the southern parts of China “collectors” of bamboo are placed in the oyster beds, the affair was accepted as correct, especial ly in view of the fact that there w4s noth ing in the appearance of the deceased to contradict the story. So a hasty funeral wras got up, and the offending parent was put under the sod as speedily as possible. Then there being no further impediment in the wav the young people proceeded to consummate their happiness, and “the fun end meats coldly furnished the wedding feast.” But the bride had a bad habit of talking in her sleep. The young husband arose from the nuptial couch the next morn ing with a face ashen and white with a ter rible fear. In the horror of her slumbers the young wife had betrayed her fearful se cret. In the gray of the early dawn he taxed her with her crime, and woman like, she confessed it. But she went a step fur ther and with many a frantic sob and ten der caress told him that he was the cause. “Me the cause!” exclaimed the horrified youth. “I never dreamt of such a terrible thing.” “But I loved you, and my father stood in the way, I could not lose you, and killed him.” Of course she pleaded for forgiveness and silence. What human being, man woman, would not. It is easy to imagine her despair and grief, her pleadings and up- braidings— how’ her white arms clung around him ; how her tear-stained face was pressed to his with kisses. But her grief and entreaties ware alike unavailing. “I have a duty to perform to my God and conscience,” the young man said. “And you will betray me ?” “I must!” Perhaps the discovery that his wife was a fiend led him to the resolution. Perhaps the horror of her crime made her dreadful in his sight. Who may analyze his feelings under such emotions. But he did as he said he would. From the nuptial couch he went to the magistrate and told his tale of horror and dismay. A Clever Adventuress. The elderly Spanish woman arrested re cently at Auteuil, a suburb of Paris, by or der of the Spanish government, and about whom so many different stories have been told, proves to be the notorious adventuress that swindled the Madrilenos, two or three years since, out of near $2,000,000. She opened a banking house m the capital; re ceived deposits, paying 20 per cent, on re- players and onlookers. The pieces of | H,e «hiinto? “ipt thereof, and at the end of the fourth woijdarefl!! diskse-isilvhandled in shovine i mucd the saute tasmon as the elainrr nionth cave 80 per cent, more, stdl owmij wooa arena (lisaseasily nanaieamsnovnig! atetilesand « bive9 » empl oyed in F ran Ce . , bp amn.ml StramS as if them alonjrto a goal, as in the case of i tue original amount, m range as it may howls Tlis forms an acreeable recreation i bos f. oyster-catchers are, however, P r( -- seem, tin; Mddrilenos, so dazzled were they now ,s 1 us iorms an agreeame recreation d m a cunous manner. The cans are : bv nrmn<1( . t of ’ in a i Iow( , d ber to have and affords good exercise. When oi*dr«r £ d for abQut twQ months ^ the rays S 000 ctiWe the saloon has-»ta r , of ‘; be nd then laced for a 8imi /ar j - eIr t0 ^ e - XteDt ° f f“’ 50 -°> 000 - rs busy at something .orT period jn wateij l ' after which tUey are ! - wdl be playing whist, ; ^in dried for several days, the object be- i i wa . ch , ln =. a S 81116 at ! ing to preserve them from decay and pro- i hndnaid about ”*'700 000^"in interest and cheM; a third party will be listening to a L^ t twisting or warping of the bamboo. ZK wk/tKst The govemmenl thnlkng tale of the sea by an a Notches are then cut in the canes, into afrents had been looking for her a longtime fourth party is attending to a game of back- which shells are fixed, like so j SSS S Auteuil where she gamiton. In the evening when lamps are ; £ J J , u DreDared They are' ,. y . l ) A “ teml > '' aere she lio-ht<d then* iq sometimes a kind of muni-1 , . y C . U P 9 > ana l “ lls P rt P areu ar /; was living with her sister m great luxury. n 0 nu«, mere is sometimes a iana oi must dnven mto the seashore between high and Q.,e is the widow of Senor T «irrn thenonu- cal concert for which an obliging young la-1, . , , eft gtandlDff t o catch , W1 , , , ° r . ra ’ inepo P u dv rt nerlmns a musically inclined miner ' , waier mark, ana leii sianamg to caicn ] ar sa t iri8 t who, not long since, as a satire ay, or pernaps, a musical!} mcnnea purser, th{J Those localities are con- on blow out his brains, an act preadefi at the piano. Often m slupa of this , the best where the rise and fall of ° h ‘ ’ e «ems to lrnvT nerfonn/d descnption there is a good deal of heavy tb tide is d m tbat b i V alves ; tb , j ata i rega ]t f or the creditors of bettmg. The he s will be as to he day | be atterna f el cov ’ ered b tbe flood and j ^ a dv e 2 r » "he had been tnt to and hour of arrival at port, what will be the i ; , , , on «. e ebb Tb( , re tbe VO umr i ,, a ?y en, “ rtss - . had Detn sent to number of ihc first nilot boat thRt'fct-esentq i exposcaioan- onme eoD. mere ineyoung Madrid, where justice wnll promptly be number of >ke tot pilot boat^ha^p-tsents oysters thnTe „ and develop rapidly and | meted ‘’ u t to her. This affair closdy re- sul^^fTyndicuIous and tile cause of Uiucfi I 1 **® -unite ready for the market w*an du'i" "cmbles thecaac-of Frauleiu Adeierpitzeder, runout also the loss of a good deal of I are . l>v “. J ’ ears oia ' A Iar ft e trade is earned . w ho set up a similar bank in Munich some money. In all well reguhfted vessels ! °“ by “* c !>“*>■“ who pursue the callmg, She paid 10 per cent a month, the ship officers are strictly- excluded from 0U T, u ‘ bese : and lem money to the aristocracy wlW gaming/r betting. The "youngsters who ! ““ ! “f,d “>!“n I temporarily embanked, at happen to be on board have their own ;. . f . ‘ T m • rates still more exorbitant. Millions of aumsauents in the games and sports of quan ™J 0 }“{^ ovstere are drioUn* ^ -° rinS passed her h™ 118 - She lived like a children. To these juveniles the cow is an ‘“ff, ^ ^ • 8 °! . oy8ter8 ar ® dned ’ n ' s cad °f berng eaten m a fresh state..^For, was very charitable to the poor, that purpose they are taken from the shells, aIld won a good - name wUich vario us accu- simply plunged into boiling water, and hen < cou f d not burt Hhe continued her removed at once after which process they : bank for ei ht employing fifty clerks are exposed to the rays of the sun until. and book . k ° ee p^ a ’ nd would have contin- eveiy particle of moisture has evaporated ■ ued a , Zdshe not suddenly been ar- In that state they will keep for a length of ; re8ted for 6 p. aud and thrown into prison, time, and are said to preserve all the deli- j That cau8ed her downfalL H er credit was cacy of their flavor The finest and fattest ruined her s| was {orced t0 sbm bivalves, bred and fed on the leaves and | jj er i iabilitie8 were five times greater thin Cuttings ^ of the bamboo, are selected for her She was tried and condemned preparation by that method, those taken from the natural beds being inferior in quality, and not sufficiently plump to stand the operation. her assets. She was tried and condemned to three years’ imprisonment for swindling. server for what he termed his officious ness in preventing bis paying a debt of honor. One of the oldest baronets in England, having lost every cent of his fortune at faro, was obliged to drive a stage coach for the means of liveli hood. At a certain trial in one of the English courts of justice, in 1837, it was proved against lord de Ros, one of the most respectable of the gaming nobility that he was in the habit of cheating by means of a certain trick in whisc. He did not long survive the disgrace of the public disclosure of hfs guilt, and after his death Theodore Hook suggested as an epitaph: “Here lies England’s pre mier baron, patiently awaiting the last trump!” said a young man to the witty Sheridan, “I know a man who cheats, but I do not like to expose him; what shall I do?” “Back him,” was the quiet reply. Innumerable stories are told of the Mississippi gamblers who reaped speh rich harvests in the “good old times,” before the iron horse had interfered so seriously with the river amusements in the games and sports of . - .r ^ . . . , . i *.^»**o jtooouu uu u*uu a . uuc n.uu mvc a Child.™ To these juveniles the cow is an ' ! )f h „ in „ ’ 0 ° J, ? ^ ; Princess ; started and supported a news- object ef much interest. The poor animal which is required for the sake of its milk, occupies (as we have it) a booth at the eor- of one of the paddle boxes. There, well bedded and tied up cow fashion, it is observed munching its food with the most perfect placidity, although a thousand miles fh):n home and the sea all around with loag sweeping waves, might be sup posed t) disturb its equanimity. For air it has a d'tor with the .upper part left open. Stretching over the lower half-door, the children look in and make their comments the comfortable quarters, speak of the nice smell of the hay and wonder if the cow is ever seasick. We have seldom seen a fractious child in arms who had not been soothed by being treated to a look at the cow. This practice of taking cows to sea is one of the luxuries of modern traveling. A concern such as the Cunard has an esta blishment of cows at Liverpool and New Y ork, and there is a change of .animals each voyage. A curious life that for a cow. Twelve days browsing in a field and stretching its legs and the next 12 crossing the Atlantic. If one of these cows could write the story of its life, it might tell of having crossed the Atlantic 150 times and seen a good deal of the w'orld. Lafitte, the Banker. In the zenith of his prosperity as a world-renowed banker, Lafitte retained the same principles of frugality and saving that characterized him in his days of indigence. He was never the avaricious and grasping miser, but be was ever the parsimonious saver. He would scold,- and sometimes read his clerks a lecture upon their wilful waste of a pen, a piece of paper, or an inch of twine; yet he had a vein of charity, and could be magnificent in his benevolence. One morning a lady entered the boudoir of the banker, to solicit his subscription to some charitable object. He appeared some what ruffled in his temper just at the mo ment, but fie received her graciously, as a Frenchmar.4^!^ s how. “What do .vSkpqifire, my good sister?” asked the banie^ “Sir,” she replied. “I come to you on behalf of my distressed neighbors; their necessity is great.” “Indeed !” you hare called at the right time, for just now I am angry with that gentleman for wasting my wafers.” At the same time-ire-pointed to a young man seated at a desk, who smiled, but was evi dently disconcerted. The benevolent lady pretty much con cluded that her mission would be a fruitless turn, he threatened to chastise his pre-^ on6j and th a t her visit might not be with out some good result, she amiably applied herself to excusing the fault of the clerk, who had called down the reproof #f the careful money dealer by not making ofie wafer serve to seal two letters. Lafitte listened attentively and afterwards present ed to the,lady a check for one thousand francs, saying at the same time: “If, in my career, I had not economized in trifles, it would not be so easy for me to have contributed to-day to the excellent ob ject which you have in hand. Pray, look in upon me from time to time.” Half of Jt. The other day a pretty girl at one of the tables in the charity fair offered-a bunch of roses to a gentleman. “How much?” said the gentleman, a well-known sharper at the stock exchange. “Four dollars,” said the lady. “Four dollars! Good heavens, madam, I might as well be robbed in the street. However, may-be you’ll sell me half of it.” “Why, certainly,” said the lady, and with a clip of the scissors (Oit the roses in two and handed him the stems. “Two dollars, if you pleese,” she said. He paid without another word. A Steam Wedding. Recently the eastward bound train drew up to the little station of Rich mond, on the Stonington (Con.) Rail road, and a man of some seventy win ters and a maiden of some twenty-five summers stepped to the platform. Rev. Mr. — was in waiting with his car riage to take the couple to his residence where the ceremony was to be per formed which should make them man and wife. But instead of the youthful pair entering the carriage the bride- groom-expectant hurriedly inquired when the next westward bound train was due. On being told that only five minutes would elap3e before that im portant event, he ejaculated, “I am in a hurry! We mu9t return by the next train! It’s going to rain! We must be married!” They entered the hum ble waiting room of the depot, there to take upon themseives the bonds that none but God can put asunder. Time moved slowly, but they moved exceed ing sure. Considerable of the limited time was consumed in filling out the certificate, &c., until the acation agent suggested that the time was “only two minutes now.” Just then the west ward bound train rounded the curve, approaching the'statfbn just as if there never were such things in all the world weddings and perplexed youths and maidens. But the reverend servant of Hymen was equal to the occasion and brought the affair to a speedy crisis as follows: “Join hands. You take this man to be your husband?” “Yes.” “You take this woman to be your wife?” “Yes.” “I pronounce you man and wife!” Some silver dollars jingled merrily and the conductor called “All aboard!” The train left the station and with it the happy pair. A Fatal Dauehter. Not long ago, a Kansas girl proposed to The Story of an Invention. Rather more than a hundred and fifty years ago a potter named Astbury was making a journey on horseback from Staf fordshire to London, and while trapping at Dunstable he had occasion to seek aid for weakness in the eyes of his horse. Having made known his wants to the hostler of the inn at which he was staying, the latter un dertook the asked-for assistance, and this he did by taking a piece of flint, calcing, or burning it to powder, in the fire, and blow ing some into the horses eyes. It is said that the change produced in the flint by burning, from a black stone to a white powder, at once struck the potter with a brilliant idea. “Would it be possible to produce white flint ware harder and more durable than white ware made entirely of clay?” The idea appears to have been no sooner conceived than it was carried out. Collecting some flints from the neighbor hood of Dunstable, Astbury took them with him to Staffordshire, and the result was thoroughly satisfactory, and indeed more than realized his expectations, for powder of calcined flint, mixed with pipe-clay, was found to produce a most excellent ware. Thus a new branch of the art of pottery was at once established and took firm root. Artificial Fuel. An invention lately brought out in Eng land consists in mixing the dust of coal with an extract obtained from boiling ordi nary seaweed or other similar vegetable matter, producing when boiled a similar mucilaginous or adhesive solution. In car rying the invention into effect they first boil seaweed or other vegetable product capable of yielding when boiled a mucilaginous or adhesive solution, and then mix coal-dust with the said solution in the ordinary man ner in which cement, mortar, or other sim ilar material is mixed. The combined ma terials are then molded to any desired shape by hand, or by means of a brick-making or other suitable machine. The same solution, when combined with sawdust or other suit able material, may be formed into blocks for filtering purposes. NEWS IN BRIEF. How to Cure Stammering. No stammering person ever found diffi culty in singing. The reason of this is that by keeping time, the organs of speech are kept in such a position that enunciation is easy. Apply the same rule to reading or marry without her father’s consent. But as ‘ speech, and the same result will follow, the old gentleman had threatened to inter- j Let the stammerer take a sentence like this pose some very disagreeable impediments j one, “Leander swam the Hellespont” and to her course, she concluded that the best pronounce it by syllables, scan it, keeping thing for her to do would be to get him out time with his finger, if necessary, letting of the way. As they lived alone the pro- j each syllable occupy the same time thus, posed murder was of easy contrivance. It Le-an-der-swam-the-Hel-les pont, and he was accomplished while he was asleep by j will not stammer. Let him pronounce pushing a shoemaker’s awl through the top slowly at first, then faster, but still keeping of his head into his brain. The old gentle- ! time with words instead of syllables, and man probably expired without a struggle, j he will be surprised to find that, by very The affectionate daughter then washed ( little practice, he will read without stam- away the few drops of blood which had | mering, and nearly as rapidly as persons oozed from the wound, and immediately , ordinarily talk or read. Then practice this alarmed the neighborhood with the news in reading or conversation until the habit that her father had died in bed at night, is broken up. Perseverence and attention possibly of heart disease. Her version of' are all that is necessary to perfect a cure. —Philadelphia has 552 churches. —Galveston, Texas, is assessed at $17,000, —The number of insane people in Illinois is nearly 4,000. —There are 20,000 unmarried women in Philadelphia. —Ben. Butler has an income of $75,000 a year. —There is not an idle furnace in the Lebanon or Lehigh Valleys, Pa. —Foreign dolls alone paid Uncle Sam $110,000 in duties in 1877. —Gov. Robinson, of New York, is 81, and the oldest Governor in the land. —A Bristol R. I. man has made 100 pairs of rubber boots in 100 hours. —Atlanta, Ga., ha3 fifty-eight tele phonic exchanges. —The area of Pennsylvania is about 43,000 square milee. —Fifty different species of tobacco are described by botanists. —The International Exhibition in Mexico in 1880 is likely to be given up. —The banks ot York, Pa., have re solved to neither take nor pay trade —The New Haven, Conn., public school teachers are to have their salar ies reduced. —During the twelve months ending the first of last March, Chicago packed nearly 5,000,000 bogs, —A larger quantity of tobacco will be cultivated in Cumberland county, Pa., this year than ever before. —In the Mississippi penitentiary there are over 200 convicts who are im prisoned for life. —The principal of the Titusville, Pa., schools has been arrested for cruelly beating a pupil. —The tomb of Napoleon III, is cover ed with fresh flowers every day by or der of Eugenie. —iLcosts, so says a current item, the farmers of the United States $20,000,000 annually to do their plowing. —The Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, has sent oat upon the land 7,205 doctors. —The population of Spain is now es timated at about 17,000,(X)0, an increase of nearly one million since 1860. —The Five Cent Savings Bank of Lowell, Mass., has-been closed by the Bank Commissioner. —Captain Paul Boynton is going to swim the ConnecticutRiver from Hart ford to Say brook. —Mr. II. D. Parker, of the Parker House, Boston, Mass., is worth 2,500,- . OuO. —Mora snow on Mouut Washington the past winter than for forty years be-* fore. —Each day in April the pipe lines took 50,883 barrels of oil from the wells in the Venango region. —Seventy vessels from five to seven ty tons burthen, with 350 men, are now engaged in the Key West sponge trade. —A Nebraska man, with, the aid of sixteen men, has planted 52,000 trees on his claim in eight days, tnis spring. —A farmer on the shores of Lake Ontario has had nine acres washed away in twenty year3. He is evident ly losing ground. —The official returns of the Califor nia election show a total vote of 140,000 and a majority of 9,600 for the New Constitution. —Enough cloth can be woven in Massachusetts in sixty days to supply all the people in the United States with clothing. —The yield of petroleum in the United States last year was 616,007,004 gallons. The quantity exported was valued at $46,574,974. —William Jay, a lad of Penn town ship, Chester county, Pa., died recently from lockjaw. He stuck a thorn into his foot and the wound festered. —Colonel King, a Texas cattle man, has a fence seventy-five miles long, en closing about 337 square miles, on which range 110,000 beasts. —Among the twenty-three new con verts which Bishop Whipple recently confirmed at St. Paul, Minn., were twelve Indians. —His Holiness the Pope has con ferred the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great on Mr. Daniel Thomas Murphy, of California. —William Gale, of Cardiff, has just completed, at Bradford, England, the unexpected feat of walking 2,500 miles in 1000 consecutive hours. —Mr. Caird, the agricultural statisti cian, estimates the capital of English landlords at *1,000,000,000, and of Eng lish tenants at $2,000,000,000. —Mr. William R. Cushing, of Matta- poisett. Me,, has dug his grave, board ed it up inside, covered it up in good shape, and is only waiting for the final dissolution of all things. Among the Seminole Indians there is a tradition th^, Florida was once in habited by a half-civilized race, who were artisans and great in wealth and war. —The flowers used for decorating Queen Victoria’s apartments at the British Embassy, in Paris, on the oc casions of her two recent visits there, cost $3000. —There are 50,000,000 acres of land California fit for cul ivation, and not over 5,000,000 are in actual use for that purpose, and not over 8,000,000 are en closed. The salary of Whitelaw Reid, of the New'. York Tribune, is $12,000. Hurlburt, of the World, receives $8,000 year. Charles A. Dana, of the Sun, gets a salary of $12,000. —An English company has been formed with a capital of $1,250,000 to establish a line of steamers to run be tween Baltimore and Barrow-in Fur ness, for the transportation of cattle. —The land in Ireland is cultivated by 600,000 tenants, wno occupy an average of thirty-two acres each. There are '16,000 landlords, of whom 1,942 own two-thirds of the whole country. —The largest cultivated wheat farm on the globe is said to be the Grondin farm, not far from the town ot Fargo, Dakota. It embraces some 40,000 acres both Government and railway find, and lies close to the Red river. —The crown given by the King of Spain to Queen Mercedes on their wed ding day was made In Madrid, and cost $100,000. A necklace made with forty pearls cost $60,000, and a few sol itaires $40,000. —The inventor of shoes for walking, on the water gave an exhibition at Memphis, Tenn., recently. He stepped boldly off the levee, but immediately sank into the river and was nearly drowned when rescued, —D.iring the past year, 1878, Herr Fuchs states that the number of vol canic eruptions over the world reached the unusuallv high number of 12; that they were at places far apait, and were mostly from little known and inacces sible volcanoes.